About/Pri

About

My name is Svend and I am a statistician/bioinformatician. On this blog I calculate and visualize information in datasets.

The big question is, how much do I calculate and what do I visualize. In one extreme, everything is calculated. I test all hypotheses statistically and I arrive at a single mathematical model describing everything. However, this only reveals a few aspects of the dataset. It is also difficult to understand the models, so many readers would simply have to trust my calculations. And why should they? I am just a random person on the internet. In the other extreme, nothing is calculated and we only see ‘raw data’ visualized. Raw visualizations are useful, but they only scratch the surface. I aim to be in the best place between the two; enough calculations to make things interesting, yet not so many that the analysis become narrow and hard to understand.

Because I am a big fan of Esperanto, I analyze many datasets related the language. The name of the blog, Kalkulinda, also comes from Esperanto and translates to ‘calculation-worthy’.